On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 23:28, Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziq...@citycable.ch> wrote: >> And, of course, any ideas or help on the garbage collector(s) issue are >> welcome. > I do not know much about Lua's GC. My experience (for R, Python and Java) is > that it's doable.
The GC implemented in Lua [1] is an incremental mark-and-sweep collector. Since Lua type system is simple (nil, boolean, number, string, function, userdata, thread, for coroutines, and tables) it automatically collects everything without problems. The strategy for basic types is to copy values from the C (or OCaml) side to the Lua stack: this copy decouples the two GC and sets them free to deallocate values. Problems arise when one tries to share userdata or closures between OCaml and Lua. In this case it's not clear (at least to me) how to approch the problem. [1] http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.10 -- Paolo ⠠⠵ _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
